Rapport Greenpeace sur les exportations "teintées de sang"

STAINED TIMBER RURAL VIOLENCE AND THE THEFT OF AMAZON TIMBER 1 2 AN EVERYDAY SCENE OF HORROR On 19 April 2017, as families were relaxing at home, four men armed with knives, machetes, revolvers and large-calibre Taquaruçu do Norte, a rural area of Colniza municipality in Brazil’s Mato Grosso State, with a straightforward goal: to kill as many people as possible, so as to terrorise the local population and drive them away. The extermination group, known as ‘The Hooded Ones’, attacked communities across a ten-kilometrestretch of the road, torturing villagers and murdering nine of them: Francisco Chaves da Silva, Edson Alves Antunes, Izaul Brito dos Santos, Alto Aparecido Carlini, Sebastião Ferreira de Souza, Fábio Rodrigues dos Santos, Samuel Antônio da Cunha, Ezequias Santos de Oliveira and Valmir Rangel do Nascimento. Some of the victims were found with their hands tied behind their backs and machete 1 wounds across their bodies. This horrifying scene may seem like something from a crime thriller, but what happened was all too real, and moreover this was not an isolated case. Such brutal violence is a feature of the everyday lives of rural communities in Brazil, especially frequent occurrence, driven both by illegal loggers and by land grabbers who clear the forest illegally to grow crops or pasture cattle.